On May 7th, the Hunan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics held a special meeting on cultural relic safety work. Chen Yuanping, Deputy Director of the Hunan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and Director of the Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. Jiang Wenhui and Wang Zhijie, Deputy Directors of the Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, as well as heads and deputy directors of various departments of the organization, attended the meeting.
Chen Yuanping pointed out that cultural relic safety is the red line, bottom line, and lifeline of cultural relic protection, as well as the premise and foundation of cultural relic protection and utilization. It is related to the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, national cultural security, and safety production cannot be compromised. Cultural relics workers in the province must carefully learn from the profound lessons of the collapse of self built houses by residents in Changsha, strengthen their understanding, raise vigilance, and take practical responsibilities. They should promptly conduct comprehensive inspections of safety hazards such as flood season, fires, theft, and illegal activities by legal entities, and take practical and effective measures to ensure the absolute safety of personnel and cultural relics.
Chen Yuanping requested that the Hunan cultural relics system further clarify and clarify the main responsibility, direct responsibility, and regulatory responsibility for cultural relics safety, and consolidate them to specific units, locations, and individuals. While strengthening epidemic prevention and control, it effectively resolves the “three major risks” of cultural relics safety. We should be proactive and draw lessons from others, actively carry out the management of cultural relics protection units and collections, especially the safety risk assessment of museums, ancient buildings, ancient bridges, cultural relics protection sites and other places, and formulate and implement targeted preventive measures to ensure the safety of cultural relics work. We must strictly implement the four level inspection system. Provincial, municipal, county, and cultural relic management units should compare the standard requirements of quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily inspections, carefully organize and carry out cultural relic safety inspections and investigations, and ensure the normalization, meticulous, and effective implementation of cultural relic safety.
(Zhou Jianjun and Yang Yuewu)